Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West /

• Main Author: Doak, Kevin M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Global Political Thinkers
• Subjects: International relations.; Asia-Politics and government.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Legislative bodies.; Globalization.; Peace.; International Relations Theory.; Asian Politics.; Human Rights and Crime .; Legislative and Executive Politics.; Peace Studies.

This book explores one of the 20th century's most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka Kōtarō (1890-1974) was modern Japan's pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been largely overlooked...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 The Formation of a Japanese Globalist Thinker
• Chapter 2 Law as a Universal Force for Good
• Chapter 3 Tanaka's Theory of World Law
• Chapter 4 A Globalist at Home
• Chapter 5 A Globalist Judge, at Home and Abroad
• Chapter 6 Tanaka's Final Years-and Beyond.